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Cyber Security, Systems Architecture Big Pushes for Aviation Security Tech, TSA Official Says

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, December 14th, 2015

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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has been putting a major focus on securing the cyber component of its various screening equipment it deploys to the nation’s airports while also looking more closely at the system architecture and approaches to testing of this equipment, says the head of the agency’s office responsible for overseeing the development and acquisition of security technology.TSA has been working with its partners in the Department of Homeland Security and the agency’s Office of Information Technology to…

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